Costa Concordia cruise ship runs aground off coast of Italy - Photos - The Big Picture - Boston.com Costa Concordia cruise ship runs aground off coast of Italy The search continued for those still missing after the Costa Concordia luxury cruise ship smashed into a reef off the coast of Giglio, Italy, and partially sank last weekend. Eleven deaths were confirmed on Tuesday. The shipâs captain, Francesco Schettino, has been accused of manslaughter by prosecutors after he left the ship before all passengers were evacuated. -- Lloyd Young ( 34 photos total ) A rescuer being lowered on the cruise liner Costa Concordia on Jan. 18 that ran aground in front of the harbor of the Isola del Giglio (Giglio island) after hitting underwater rocks on January 13. Emergency workers fear that the ship could slip from its resting place on a rocky shelf and slip into deeper waters. (Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images) 2 The luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia is shown run aground off the coast of Giglio in this Jan. 17, 2012 DigitalGlobe handout satellite photo.

Eleven people are confirmed dead and some twenty are still missing from more than 4,200 passengers and crew after the Concordia ran aground two hours into a week-long cruise of the western Mediterranean. (Digitalglobe/Reuters) # 3 Rescuers surround the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia after it ran aground off the coast of Isola del Giglio island, Italy, gashing open the hull and forcing some 4,200 people aboard to evacuate aboard lifeboats to the nearby Isola del Giglio island, early Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. About 1,000 Italian passengers were onboard, as well as more than 500 Germans, about 160 French and about 1,000 crew members. (Giorgio Fanciulli/Giglionews.it/Associated Press) # 5 The cruise ship Costa Concordia lies stricken off the shore of the island of Giglio as floating barriers are positioned to prevent pollution of the coasts on Jan. 18, 2012 in Giglio Porto, Italy. The official death toll is now 11, with some twenty people still missing.

The rescue operation was temporarily suspended earlier due to the ship moving as it slowly sinks further into the sea. (Tullio M. Puglia/Getty Images) # 6 Rescue divers retrieve a body from the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio on Jan. 17, 2012. Divers searching for survivors inside a stricken cruise ship off the Italian coast found five more bodies on Tuesday, as prosecutors grilled the arrested captain over his role. The death toll has now risen to 11, leaving some twenty still missing of the 4,200 people on board when the ship went down on Jan. 13. ( Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images) # 7 Captain Francesco Schettino (center) of cruise ship Costa Concordia is escorted into a prison by police officers at Grosseto, after being questioned by magistrates in this still image from a video Jan. 17, 2012. Italian coastguards pleaded angrily with the captain of the stricken super-liner to return to his ship, according to recordings released on Tuesday as divers found five more bodies in the half-submerged wreck of the Costa Concordia.

Taking the known death toll to 11, that some 24 people, including a number of German tourists, unaccounted for four days after the giant cruiser carrying more than 4,200 passengers and crew was ripped open by rocks off a Tuscan island. Schettino is accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck by sailing too close to shore and abandoning ship before all his passengers and crew scrambled off. (Reuters) # 8 A cameraman films on Jan. 18, 2012 a notice for a missing person from the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia on the Tuscan island of Giglio. The captain of the Italian cruise liner, Francesco Schettino, returned home to the Amalfi coast under house arrest on Jan. 18, as fears grew that bad weather could hamper rescue efforts on the wreck. Divers, mountain rescue teams and soldiers have so far recovered 11 bodies from the turbid waters of the half-submerged hulk and the surrounding sea.

(Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images) # 9 Italian rescue personnel are seen atop the Costa Concordia cruise liner, two days after it ran aground off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. The captain of a cruise liner that ran aground and capsized off the Tuscan coast faced accusations from authorities and passengers that he abandoned ship before everyone was safely evacuated as rescuers found another body on the overturned vessel. (Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press) # 15 Underwater photo taken on Jan. 13, 2012, and released by the Italian Coast Guard on Jan. 16 shows a diver inside the cruise ship Costa Concordia, after it ran aground in front of the Isola del Giglio harbor. Pier Luigi Foschi, head of the Costa Crociere line, said the company had commissioned several firms to look at the best way to salvage the 114,500-ton vessel lying on its side.

The 290-meter (950-feet) long Costa Crociere, which is 17 decks high, has a large gash in its hull from running on to rocks before it capsized on Friday night. (Italian Coast Guard/AFP/Getty Images) # 19 An helicopter evacuates Marrico Giempietroni, the Costa Concordia's cabin service director after he was rescued from the Costa Concordia on Jan. 15, 2012, after the cruise ship ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio, late on Jan. 13. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images) # 20 Oil removal ships near the cruise ship Costa Concordia leaning on its side Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, after running aground near the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, last Friday night. The rescue operation was called off mid-afternoon Monday after the Costa Concordia shifted a few inches (centimeters) in rough seas. The fear is that if the ship shifts significantly, some 500,000 gallons of fuel may begin to leak into the pristine waters.

(Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press) # 22 Rescue workers climb on the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island Jan. 16, 2012. Rescue workers searched the half submerged hulk of the Italian cruise ship for people still missing on Monday, more than 48 hours after the huge vessel keeled over. (Max Rossi/Reuters) # 23 Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground is seen off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island Jan. 14, 2012. At least eleven people were killed and rescuers were searching for other victims after the Italian cruise ship carrying more than 4,200 people ran aground and keeled over in shallow waters. (Remo Casilli /Reuters) # 32 This aerial black-and-white video image shot with an infrared camera and made available by the Italian Coastguard Tuesday Jan. 17, 2012 appears to show passengers of shipwrecked cruise liner Costa Concordia slipping down the belly of the luxury liner one-by-one using a rope to reach a lifeboat, bottom left, late Friday Jan.

13, 2012 off Giglio Island, Italy. (Italian Coastguard/Associated Press) # 33 An image grab taken from Sky TV Italy shows passengers and crew members wearing life jackets as they prepare to evacuate the Costa Concordia cruiseship on Jan. 13, 2012 after the ship ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio after hitting underwater rocks. (AFP/Getty Images) # 34 A cruise ship that ran aground is seen off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island Jan. 14, 2012. The Costa Concordia, a large Italian cruise ship, carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground overnight, took on water and tipped over. (Giorgio Fanciulli/Reuters) # More links and information Italian Cruise Ship Accident Raises Questions About Crew and Captain - The New York Times The New York Times Europe |Liner Captain Is Questioned in Capsizing Off Italy Coast Search By GAIA PIANIGIANI and SARAH MASLIN NIR JAN.

15, 2012 Continue reading the main story Photo Rescuers found three people on Sunday on the Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the coast of Giglio, Italy. Credit Filippo Monteforte/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images GIGLIO, Italy — The captain of the cruise ship that capsized aground near an Italian island, killing at least five people, may have caused the accident by taking the ship too close to the island’s rocky shore, the owner of the vessel said on Sunday, as rescue workers extracted three survivors and two bodies from the wreck. The captain, Francesco Schettino, 51, of Naples, Italy, was detained for questioning by the Italian police on charges of manslaughter, failure to offer assistance and abandonment of the ship. On Sunday, Costa Cruises, the ship’s owner, issued a statement saying that “there may have been significant human error” by Captain Schettino that caused the ship, the Costa Concordia, to ground on a rocky outcropping near this resort island on Friday. Photo An image from a passenger's video shows the scene onboard after the crash.

Credit via Reuters “The route of the vessel appears to have been too close to the shore, and in handling the emergency, the captain appears not to have followed standard Costa procedures,” the statement said. The statement appeared to diverge from the company’s comments on Saturday when it said that the Costa Concordia had followed the normal course it follows “52 times a year.” The company had also commended Captain Schettino, saying he “immediately understood the severity of the situation” and “initiated security procedures to prepare for an eventual ship evacuation.” Before he was detained by the authorities, Captain Schettino told Italian television that the ship hit a reef that was not on its navigation charts. About 70 people were injured when the ship capsized, just as a late-seating dinner had begun on Friday night. Photo Italian coast guard divers searched for survivors as rescue operations continued on the cruise ship Costa Concordia on Sunday. Credit Maurizio Degl' Innocenti/European Pressphoto Agency Accounts from survivors and witnesses raised questions about whether the ship had veered off course and suggested that the crew was ill-prepared for an emergency.

With 17 of the ship’s 4,200 passengers still listed as missing, rescue workers searched the waterlogged luxury liner on Sunday for survivors and found three, including a couple on their honeymoon. The couple was found inside a cabin, said Luca Cari, a spokesman for the Italian fire brigade that rescued them. Later, firefighters rescued the ship’s purser by helicopter, hoisting him strapped to a stretcher. The purser, Manrico Giampedroni, 57, from the northwestern region of Liguria, had a broken leg. Divers searching submerged cabins found the bodies of two elderly men, one from Spain and one from Italy, both wearing life jackets, said Cmdr. Cosimo Nicastro, a coast guard spokesman. The deaths brought the number of people confirmed dead to five. Photo The ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, was arrested on Saturday. Credit Enzo Russo/European Pressphoto Agency Among the people still missing were 11 passengers and 6 crew members, said Enrico Rossi, president of the Tuscany region. The United States State Department said Sunday that 120 Americans had been on board and all but 2 had been accounted for.

Through the day, Italian fire brigades circled the massive ship, which lay on its side like a beached whale, with a wide gash just below the waterline and a rock jutting through its hull. The firefighters tapped the hull and listened for any responses from people trapped inside. Rescuers were focusing their efforts on the part of the ship still above water. “The likelihood that we can find somebody alive in the underwater cabins is very low, so we are aiming at the ones possibly trapped above water,” said Mr. Cari, the fire spokesman. So far, his crews had searched only a quarter of that area, parts of which are blocked by debris. He said the sunken portion of the ship would be inspected through the porthole windows during the night by divers with flashlights. Video Cruise Ship Runs Aground At least three people are reported dead after a luxury liner tips over near the coast of Tuscany, Italy. (Courtesy of Reuters) By None None on Publish Date January 14, 2012. . Watch in Times Video » embed On the tiny island of Giglio, some residents had tended to survivors through the night on Friday, offering hot tea and dry clothes.

At Mass on Sunday morning at the Giglio Porto church, a priest placed a life jacket, a rope and a rescue helmet on the altar to honor the dead and missing. “Giglio will no longer be the same,” said Don Lorenzo, the priest. “Let’s us all pray together now for our souls.” While the investigation continued, residents, many of whom are sailors, had little doubt about the cause of the accident, saying the captain had tried to thread a narrow passage between the rocks that was too small for the 114,500-ton ship. “We used to get kind of close to the shore to show off its beauty, to entertain passengers,” said Demetrio Mattera, 75, a former cruise ship sailor here. “But never so close.” Correction: January 23, 2012 An article last Monday about the Costa Concordia shipwreck in Italy misstated the age of the vessel’s captain, Francesco Schettino. (The error was repeated in an article about the shipwreck on Wednesday.) He is 51, not 52. Gaia Pianigiani reported from Giglio, and Sarah Maslin Nir from New York.

A version of this article appears in print on January 16, 2012, on Page A4 of the New York edition with the headline: Liner Captain Is Questioned In Capsizing Off Italy Coast. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe Captain of capsized cruise ship says sacking unfair | Reuters Thu Oct 11, 2012 | 4:03 PM EDT Captain of capsized cruise ship says sacking unfair 1/4 Francesco Schettino walks in his hometown of Meta di Sorrento near Naples, October 11, 2012. The captain of the Costa Concordia which ran into a rock and capsized off the Italian coast in January, killing up to 32 people, has sued for wrongful dismissal, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Schettino faces charges of multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship and preliminary hearings will begin on October 15.

Reuters/Ciro de Luca + 2/4 Francesco Schettino sits in a cafe at his hometown of Meta di Sorrento near Naples, October 11, 2012.The captain of the Costa Concordia which ran into a rock and capsized off the Italian coast in January, killing up to 32 people, has sued for wrongful dismissal, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Schettino faces charges of multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship and preliminary hearings will begin on October 15. Reuters/Ciro de Luca + 3/4 Francesco Schettino sits in a cafe at his hometown of Meta di Sorrento near Naples, October 11, 2012. The captain of the Costa Concordia which ran into a rock and capsized off the Italian coast in January, killing up to 32 people, has sued for wrongful dismissal, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Schettino faces charges of multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship and preliminary hearings will begin on October 15. Reuters/Ciro de Luca + 4/4 Francesco Schettino (2nd R) sits in a cafe at his hometown of Meta di Sorrento near Naples, October 11, 2012.

The captain of the Costa Concordia which ran into a rock and capsized off the Italian coast in January, killing up to 32 people, has sued for wrongful dismissal, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Schettino faces charges of multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship and preliminary hearings will begin on October 15. Reuters/Ciro de Luca + ROME The captain of the Costa Concordia which ran into a rock and capsized off the Italian coast in January, killing up to 32 people, has sued for wrongful dismissal, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Italian Francesco Schettino was not only fired by Costa Cruises but is accused by prosecutors of causing the accident by sailing the luxury cruise liner too close to shore. He faces charges of multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship and preliminary hearings will begin on October 15. "It is the right of every worker to appeal against his dismissal and Captain Schettino has done no more than exercise that right," lawyer Bruno Leporatti said.

"There is nothing to contest or be amazed about, unless we want to say that what the law allows for all citizens doesn't apply for Francesco Schettino." Schettino was held up to ridicule in Italy and abroad following the January 13 disaster off the Tuscan island of Giglio and his name became a symbol of incompetence and cowardice. The angry order to "Get back on board, damn it!" delivered by a coast guard officer to Schettino over the telephone after he had abandoned his ship was printed on T-shirts in Italy. Investigators said Schettino brought the 290-m (950-ft)-long vessel too close to shore, delayed evacuation and lost control of the operation during which he left the sinking ship while many of the 4,200 passengers and crew were still on board. The Naples-born captain has always acknowledged making mistakes once it became clear that the 144,400-tonne Costa Concordia was in trouble, but has said he was not the only one who should be blamed for the tragedy.

(Reporting By Gavin Jones; Editing by Michael Roddy) ADVERTISEMENT Costa Concordia captain blamed for disaster - News - Society - The Voice of Russia: News, Breaking news, Politics, Economics, Business, Russia, International current events, Expert opinion, podcasts, Video 16 January 2012, 05:27 Costa Concordia captain blamed for disaster The owner of the Italian cruise liner, which ran aground and capsized off the coast of Tuscany in the The owner of the Italian cruise liner, which ran aground and capsized off the coast of Tuscany in the early hours of Saturday, issued a statement late Sunday saying the captain of the Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, "made errors of judgment that had very grave consequences." Questions also swirl as to why the captain had navigated the ship so close to the shore, failed to send out a distress signal and abandoned the stricken liner before all the passengers had escaped. The Costa Concordia with more than 4,000 passengers and crew on board ran aground off the Italian coast on Saturday. There have been five confirmed deaths so far and 15 people are still unaccounted for.

2 more shipwreck victims identified The bodies of two more passengers of a capsized cruise liner - Spanish and Italian tourists - were identified late on Sunday. According to preliminary information the crew of the Costa Concordia liner never sent out a distress signal after the huge vessel with more than 4,000 passengers and crew on board ran aground off the Italian coast in the wee hours on Saturday. 15 people are still unaccounted for. The number of victims in shipwreck grows to 5 The number of victims in the wreck of The Costa Concordia cruise ship off the Italian coast has reached five people. The local media report that two bodies were discovered by the divers in the rear part of the ship which is under the water. The identification procedure has begun. The fate of 15 people is still unknown. The Costa Concordia which carried over 4,200 people, among them over 100 Russian tourists, ran aground and started to sink off the coast of the Italian province of Toscana. The search and rescue activities still continue. Earlier a South Korean married couple were saved who were on the cruise for their honeymoon and an Italian man who turned out to be one of the ship’s crew.

Costa Concordia missing down to 17 Seventeen people remain unaccounted for after the near capsize of the Costa Concordia, which ran aground on Friday off the coast of Tuscany. Six of them are crewmembers, and 11 are passengers. There were a total of 4.2 thousand people on board when the disaster struck, including more than 100 Russian holidaymakers. Three people are known to have died, and 67 have received treatment for injuries. Rescuers scouring the innards of the capsized cruise liner have discovered three survivors of the disaster - an Italian crewmember and a couple of South Korean honeymooners. Third Costa Concordia survivor rescued After hours of hard work, rescuers have extracted a third survivor from the Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia, which is lying on its portside two days after running aground off the coast of Tuscany. The rescued man is an Italian crewmember. The two people rescued earlier are honeymooners from South Korea. There were a total of 4.2 thousand people on board when the disaster struck. Three have been confirmed dead, and 67 have received treatment for injuries. An investigation is under way.

S.Korean couple rescued from wrecked cruise ship Two survivors who were earlier found alive on board the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia have been rescued, the BBC reported on Sunday. The South Korean couple was on honeymoon when their ship with more than 4,200 passengers on board ran aground off the Isola del Giglio Island on Friday. At least three people were killed and 67 more injured. More than 40 are still believed to be missing. Right now, the Costa Concordia is lying on its side close to a coastal island. Costa Concordia captain detained The Italian captain of the cruise ship that ran aground - killing three person and injuring 67 more - was arrested late Saturday and is being investigated for manslaughter and abandoning ship, said a local prosecutor in Grosetto, Italy. The captain, Francesco Schettino, had been earlier interviewed by investigators in Porto Santo Stefano about what happened when the 4,200-passenger Costa Concordia struck rocks in shallow water off Italy's western coast, said officer Emilio Del Santo of the Coastal Authorities of Livorno.

(IF, TASS, RIAN) Anniversary of Costa Concordia cruise disaster Picture | Costa Concordia Cruise Ship - ABC News ABC News − Anniversary of Costa Concordia cruise disaster The division Gruppo Operativo Subacquei of the Italian Military Marine inspects the inside of the stranded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Italian island of Giglio, Jan. 15, 2012. Sestini/ABACAUSA/Newscom Salvage operation to happen this week. An aerial view taken from an Italian navy helicopter shows the Costa Concordia as it lies on its side next to Giglio Island, Italy, Aug. 26, 2013. The wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship could be upright again by mid-September 2013, nearly two years after the liner capsized and killed 32 people off the Italian coast. Reuters Salvage operation to happen this week. The Costa Concordia cruise ship, which ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio Island, lies on its side, half-submerged and threatening to slide into deeper waters, Jan. 23, 2012.

Tony Gentile/Reuters Anniversary of Costa Concordia cruise disaster The division Gruppo Operativo Subacquei of the Italian Military Marine inspects inside of the stranded cruise ship Costa Concordia near the Italian island of Giglio, Jan. 15, 2012. Sestini/ABACAUSA/Newscom Anniversary of Costa Concordia cruise disaster Tourists swim in the sea in front of the wreckage of capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia near the harbour of Giglio Porto, Aug. 28, 2012. Tourists on the Tuscan coast were taking part in a rather macabre form of sightseeing by taking boat trips to view the wreckage of the shipwrecked cruise liner, where 32 people lost their lives after it hit rocks on January 13. Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters Anniversary of Costa Concordia cruise disaster The division Gruppo Operativo Subacquei of the Italian Military Marine inspects the inside of the stranded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Italian island of Giglio, Jan. 15, 2012.

Sestini/ABACAUSA/Newscom Anniversary of Costa Concordia cruise disaster Waves crash on the shoreline near the cruise liner Costa Concordia off the west coast of Italy at Giglio Island, Jan. 29, 2012. Darrin Zammit/Reuters Anniversary of Costa Concordia cruise disaster A satellite image captured by Digital Globe shows the Costa Concordia, a luxury cruise ship that ran aground in the Tuscan waters off of Giglio, Italy, Jan. 13, 2012. ABACAPRESS/Newscom Anniversary of Costa Concordia cruise disaster A thin film of oil spreads from the Costa Concordia cruise ship after it ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio Island, Feb. 3, 2012. Max Rossi/Reuters Salvage operation to happen this week. A view of the area above the Costa Concordia's emergency generator, which experts suspected did not work correctly after the the cruise liner collided with rocks, is seen on July 25, 2012 in Giglio Porto, Italy.

Laura Lezza/Getty Images Anniversary of Costa Concordia cruise disaster In this undated photo provided by Ufficio Stampa Gruppo Carabinieri Subaquei, Carabinieri frogmen dive on the cruise ship Costa Concordia, January 2012 in Giglio Porto, Italy. Ufficio Stampa Gruppo Carabinieri Subaquei via Getty Images Anniversary of Costa Concordia cruise disaster The Costa Concordia cruise ship lays aground near the port on the Italian island of Giglio, Jan. 9, 2013. Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images Anniversary of Costa Concordia cruise disaster The cruise ship Costa Concordia lies stricken off the shore of the island of Giglio, Jan. 19, 2012. Tullio M.

Puglia/Getty Images Costa Concordia upright in salvage operation off Italian coast - World - CBC News Costa Concordia upright in salvage operation off Italian coast Luxury liner capsized off Italian coast in 2012, killing 32 The Associated Press Posted: Sep 16, 2013 1:17 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 17, 2013 2:43 PM ET Time lapse of Concordia 4:08 Raising the Costa Concordia 3:53 Related Stories The Parbuckling Project (Note: CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external links.) Engineers declared success today as the Costa Concordia was pulled completely upright during a complicated, 19-hour operation to wrench the cruise ship from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany. The remarkable project now allows for a renewed search for the two bodies that were never recovered from the 32 dead, and for the ship to eventually be towed away. “They consider it a major success," CBC reporter Sasa Petricic said from Giglio Island in Italy.

"It was complicated, it was expensive … but they did manage to pull this ship into an upright position, despite the fact it is so heavy, despite the fact that it had been there for 20 months, and despite the fact that it had been basically wrenched into the rocky bottom of the Mediterranean.” The submerged side of the Concordia suffered significant damage bearing the weight of the ship and the operation to right it, officials said. That damage must be repaired to stabilize the ship so it can be towed and turned into scrap sometime in 2014. PHOTO GALLERY: Costa Concordia salvage project underway Shortly after 4 a.m. local time, a foghorn wailed off Giglio Island and the head of Italy's Civil Protection agency, Franco Gabrielli, announced that the ship had reached vertical and that the operation to rotate it — known in nautical terms as parbuckling — was complete. It was a dramatic operation that unfolded in real time as TV cameras recorded the final hours when the rotation accelerated with gravity pulling the ship into place.

'A perfect operation,' says project manager "We completed the parbuckling operation a few minutes ago the way we thought it would happen and the way we hoped it would happen," said Franco Porcellacchia, project manager for the Concordia's owner, Costa Crociere SpA. "A perfect operation, I must say," with no environmental spill detected so far, he said. The operation, known in nautical parlance as parbuckling, is a proven method to raise capsized vessels. (The Parbuckling Project) For Italy, it was a moment of pride after the horror and embarrassment of the Jan. 13, 2012 collision. The Concordia slammed into a reef off Giglio Island after the Italian captain brought it too close to shore in an apparent stunt. He earned the public's contempt when he abandoned the ship before everyone was evacuated, and then refused coast guard orders to go back on board. The Concordia drifted, listed and capsized just off the island's port, killing 32 people. Two bodies were never recovered. Now that the ship is upright, a new attempt can be made to locate the bodies, though Gabrielli stressed that the wreckage must be secured again before divers can go in.

"We hope that will happen in the next few days," he said. Other recovery efforts were also possible now that the ship is upright: Officials can now go cabin to cabin to open the safes and return whatever was stowed inside to their rightful owners, officials said. Premier Enrico Letta phoned Gabriele to congratulate him. "I told him that all those who are working there are a great pride," Letta tweeted. Applause rang out among firefighters in the tent where the project engineers made the announcement. An hour later, Nick Sloane, the South African chief salvage master, received a hero's welcome as he came ashore from the barge that had served as the floating command control room for the operation. "Brilliant! Perfetto," Sloane said, using some of the Italian he has learned over the past year on Giglio preparing for the operation. "It was a struggle, a bit of a roller coaster.

But for the whole team it was fantastic." The operation to right it had been expected to take no more than 12 hours, but dragged on after some initial delays and maintenance on the vast system of steel cables, pulleys and counterweights that were used to roll the nearly 115,000-tonne, half-submerged carcass of steel upright. The final phase of the rotation went remarkably fast as gravity began to kick in and pull the ship toward its normal vertical position. Parbuckling is a standard operation to right capsized ships. But never before had it been used on such a huge cruise liner. Ship to be towed in spring The Concordia is expected to be floated away from Giglio in the spring and turned into scrap. The aim was to right it intact, to prevent the leakage of potentially toxic waste into the pristine waters around Giglio, which is located in a marine sanctuary. Sloane said an initial inspection of the starboard side, covered in brown slime from its 20 months underwater perched on a jagged reef, indicated serious damage that must be fixed in the coming weeks and months.

The damage he said was caused by the capsizing, bearing 20 months of the ship's weight and the operation to rotate the ship. "We have to do a really detailed inspection of the damage," to determine how to shore it up so it can withstand towing. But Sloane seemed confident: "She was strong enough to come up like this, she's strong enough to be towed." The starboard side of the ship, which was raised 65 degrees in the operation, must be stabilized to enable crews to attach empty tanks on the side that will later be used to help float the vessel away. Such tanks were affixed to the exposed, port side of the ship and were filled with water in the later phases of the rotation to help pull the port side down. The ship must be made strong enough to withstand the winter storm season, when high seas and gusts will likely buffet the 300-metre long liner. After receiving cheers, embraces and a kiss from his wife on shore, Sloane said he wanted to get some sleep, a beer "and maybe a barbecue tomorrow." He was later seen celebrating in a harbourside bar with members of the salvage team.

"I think the whole team is proud of what they achieved," he said as he was mobbed by well-wishers and television crews, still wearing an orange life vest around his neck and carrying a South African flag in his hand, given to him by his wife. Helping the Concordia to weather the winter and stabilize it is an artificial platform on the seabed that was constructed to support the ship's flat keel. "The ship is resting on its platform," Gabrielli said. 2 bodies never recovered About an hour before the rotation was complete, observers said the ship seemed to suddenly settle down upon its new perch, with a clear brown-green line of algae drawn across its front delineating the half of the liner that had been underwater and the half that was exposed. Engineers righted the hull of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia from the Italian reef where it has been stuck since it capsized in January 2012. (Andrew Medichini/AP) Mayor Sergio Ortelli said the island felt a wave of relief as soon as the Concordia was freed from the reef in the initial hours of the operation.

But he said there was also the realization that two bodies still have yet to be found, with a fresh search to be launched now that the ship is upright. "While there is happiness today, there is no triumphalism," he told The Associated Press. “Most of that ship they have not been in because it was just considered too dangerous," Petricic said. "There was too much debris, too much jagged metal, too many things like that that divers just couldn’t get around.” Petricic told CBC News Network that officials will also work to return belongings left behind by passengers who fled the disaster. The Concordia's captain is on trial for alleged manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the ship during the chaotic and delayed evacuation. Capt. Francesco Schettino claims the reef wasn't on the nautical charts for the liner's weeklong Mediterranean cruise. Five other Costa employees were convicted of manslaughter in a plea bargain and were sentenced to less than three years apiece. Costa is a division of Miami-based Carnival Corp., the world's largest cruise company.

With files from CBC News Updated: Cruise Ship Runs Aground then Capsizes Off Coast of Italy - Condé Nast Traveler Updated: Cruise Ship Runs Aground then Capsizes Off Coast of Italy The Costa Concordia has capsized off the coast of Italy, killing at least three people. Many more are missing. This article has been updated since its original publication to reflect news developments. The captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which ran aground and capsized last night off the coast of Italy, killing at least three people with 50 more missing, has been arrested . Recently released statements from Costa Crociere (a Genoa-based cruise line that’s part of the massive Carnival Corporation family) and the Carnival Corporation (read them below) indicate that the ship ran aground, causing a major gash, then lost electricity and began taking on water. At one point it listed at 20 degrees (it finally turned on its side and capsized at about 45 degrees) as an emergency rescue operation commenced. The captain reportedly maneuvered the ship as close as possible to the island of Giglio.

Terrified, some passengers actually jumped overboard into the frigid sea and swam to the island, though most were rescued by lifeboats. Equally if not more terrifying was the fact that some 50 people, awaiting rescue after the captain announced the abandon ship order, could not get to lifeboats. They were pulled to safety via helicopters. According to news reports 50 people are still unaccounted and divers have been searching the ship. That search has been called off until daybreak on Sunday, due to low visibility in the dark. Obviously at this point speculation is running rampant. Major news services are reporting that the internationally oriented Costa had passengers aboard the ship, from Italy, Germany, Great Britain and Australia, among others. We’ve heard no reports at this point that Americans were onboard. Costa Concordia had just departed from Rome's port of Civitavecchia, en route to a seven-night Mediterranean cruise, on Friday afternoon. The capsizing of a cruise ship is highly unusual though the last occurrence took place in 2007 when Louis Hellenic’s Sea Diamond went down off the coast of Greece’s Santorini. Two passengers died in that tragedy.

Here are two statements from Costa (Carnival Corporation) that we received earlier today: This one's from Carnival Corp./US: Carnival Corporation & plc Statement Regarding Costa Concordia MIAMI (January 14, 2012, 3:45pm EST) - This statement is from Carnival Corporation & plc in Miami, FL. Carnival Corporation & plc is the parent company of Costa Cruises. On January 13, 2012, Costa Cruises’ vessel, the Costa Concordia, departed from Civitavecchia, Italy with approximately 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew members on a seven-day voyage. At approximately 10:00pm CET, the vessel struck rock off the coast of Isola del Giglio, Italy and sustained significant damage causing the ship to list severely. The order was given to abandon ship and deploy the lifeboats. Tragically, there are reports of some deaths and injuries. This is a terrible tragedy and we are deeply saddened. Carnival Corporation & plc offers our sympathies and heartfelt condolences to all of the Costa Concordia guests, crew members and their families.

Carnival Corporation & plc and Costa Cruises are committing our full resources to provide assistance and ensure that all guests and crew are looked after. We want to express our deep gratitude to the Italian Coast Guard and local authorities and community members who have gone to extraordinary lengths to assist in the evacuation of the ship and provide support for our guests and crew. We are working to fully understand the cause of what occurred. The safety of our guests and crew members remains the number one priority of Carnival Corporation & plc and all of our cruise lines. Costa Concordia was sailing on a Mediterranean cruise from Civitavecchia (Rome) with scheduled calls at Savona, Italy; Marseille, France; Barcelona, Spain; Palma de Mallorca; Cagliari and Palermo, Italy. This one's from Costa in Italy: Saturday 14th January, 5.30pm "I want to express our deep sorrow for this terrible tragedy that devastates us”, said Gianni Onorato, President Costa Crociere. "First of all, I would like to thank all the authorities, law enforcement and volunteers for all their efforts in helping and assisting our guests involved in this terrible event.

We are not at this time able to provide answers to all of the questions as we are working in close cooperation with the authorities to try to understand the reasons for this incident. On the basis of the preliminary evidence, the ship Costa Concordia under the command of the Master Francesco Schettino, was sailing as normal from Civitavecchia to Savona, when suddenly the ship struck a rock. The Master who was on the bridge at that time, understood the severity of the situation and immediately performed a maneuver aimed to secure the guests and crew, and started the security procedures in order to prepare for an eventual ship evacuation. Unfortunately, this operation was complicated as result of a sudden tilt of the ship that made the disembarkation difficult. Thanks to a coordinated effort by the Coast Guard, from that moment on, rescue operations have been further strengthened. We have mobilized all possible resources ashore to assist our guests and crewmembers and prevent any possible environmental impact." Video Highlights

Question: What was the name of the cruise liner which capsized off the Italian coast in January 2012?
Answer: Costa Concordia